New Jewish Books
My Journey with Parental Trauma, Addiction, Healing In 1938, during Kristallnacht, Sonia Ascher’s father was seized by the Nazis from his home in Germany and taken to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. This memoir follows her...
Illustrator: Sarah Lynne Reul A charming chapter-book series about a young Orthodox Jewish girl out to discover the truth about all the magical mysteries in her world, perfect for fans of Marya Khan and Zoey...
The Story of the Jewish Bund In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Sam Rothbort created “memory paintings” with the hope of resurrecting the vanished world of his shtetl childhood. Decades later, his great-granddaughter, the...
A Historical WWII novel of Art, Love, and Resistance To reclaim what the Nazis stole, she must face what she tried to forget. Paris, 1940. Nicole Cassin is a Jewish teenager living above her...
Illustrator: Jason Kirschner Some people think jokes are silly, but not Mel Brooks. For Mel, humor is serious. And Mel is seriously funny! This picture book biography of the legendary comedian and filmmaker shares...
From the creator of the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter project Girls in Trouble, a memoir following her journey from a secular Jewish childhood to becoming a modern queer woman owning ancient teachings and finding her...
A riveting, heart-stopping family memoir that blends art, obsession, and love as the author searches for the spectacular jeweled egg that consumed her father’s dreams—and spelled her family’s downfall. When she was eleven years...
A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II An immigration journalist and her wife trace their family’s intertwined past to unearth a history of how hundreds of...
Foreword: Sandor Ellix Katz An illustrated history of the ever-popular New York pickle told with amazing archival images and ephemera from the New York Historical and beyond. The Pickled City takes a glorious deep dive...
Yanni is a lucky little owl who loves celebrating Shabbat with his family in their warm, cozy nest. He and his whole family sing, eat, and play together until it’s time to say goodbye...
